The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-27
ARP AND KRIS KRINGLE
The Little Children's Joyful
Holiday.
GOOD ADVICE TO THE YOUNG NE

SchooIS Just out. There are two hundred chill
dren turned loose on this town and a hundred
| Thousand on the state and several millions on
| the nation, and they are kicking up racket
wherever they are. We have to give the roads
and sidewalks to thom now, They think that
| Christmas belongs TO them, and l reckon it
! does, know it does at our house. 1t Is the
| same old story every year, for just as fast as
| one set gets too big for the romance OF Christ
mas. another set is ready TO take IT in. When
the children are too big the grandchildren come
| gushing around and now.my folks are fixing up
| little evergreen tree for them ana they know
| it. Old Santa Claus is to prance round on our
| roof and como down our parlor chimney and
ill up the stockings and load the tree with good
things, and 1t will take grandma day or two
to clean up after them when the show is all
over.
Christmas holidays are healthy, beautiful
rest for the Schildten, and 1t does us all good
to see them happy. Pcnued up in school for
weeks and months: puzzled and perplexed
over their books now head and now foot and
now about half way between, with many
heart ache and many joy all mingled up to-
gcther they need u rest n good long rest, and
Christmas is sure to bring 1t. But not to all
no not to all-and that is the shadow that
karkens every JOY. There are thousands of
children to whom Christmas never comes-no
Santa Claus, no tree no presents, no anything
but poverty aud want. If the warm heart
bleeds when thinking about them let it bleed
and maybe the pocket viii, toe.
Pleasing the children is the biggest part of
life, and is what most every family man
IT, and would hardly acknowledge it if
he didi It is the power behind the
throne, the incentive that stimulates every
parent to be mp and doing. Their daily pres
Cncc, their dependence, their helplessness, en-
larges his love and broadens his charity. He
has more respect ior himself, for he feels that
the love Of children is nober thing than the
love Of money or power or fame. Mankind
must have something TO love, and so they viii
love money or fame if they have no children.
A rich man without children ought to adopt
some just for his own sake. The paternal rela-
ton is the natural relation, and no man or wo-
man is happy outside ofit-not as happy as they
might have been. Our Young men ought TO
marry-marry whether they can afford TO or
not. II is the law Of God and OF nature Marry
over you. Don't get alarmed at
her silks and satins, for she is just
wearing them to attract YOU and Will sober
down to business when you marry. There
win soon be others TO live for and work for,
and the finery must 20 if you can't afford it,
/ always tIemblc for these travellers whom /
meet everywhere on the rail-these nice young
men of good families who are doing the COM
mcrcial business OF the country. They are not
mating-hardly ever, They don't stay long
enough in place to fail III love, and by ana
by the whole south land will be full OF con-
trmed NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. who viii soon get
old and seedy and wear out and die without
mourners aud only enough friends to bury
them. They will die and leave no sign. Let
the young man merry and If lie does
have to travel he win get home
now and then and there will
always be IA light in the windw for him The
faithful dog win bark good welcome Mt his
coming, and the wife and the children be SO
happy, never so happy.
"As arrows are in the hand of mighty man,
SO are the children of the youth who marry"
"Happy IS the man who hath his culver full,
He should not BE- ashamed and shall speak
with the enemy in the gate
That is so. Exactly so. The best security
for any government IS the parental relation.
When q man reads OF anarchy and corruption
he does not tremble for himself, but for his
children and ii arouses his indignation and
provokes him to action. ! have great re-
spect for these large patriarchal families. Not
long ago | travelled with an old gentleman in
Stewart Countrywide had twenty-five children by
two wives, and they had all settled around him
and doing we'll very well, and he bore himself
like q king. Not long after ! met good look
ing matron who had thirteen children by one
husband and the oldest was only nineteen
years old, and She told me that eight of them
walked two miles to school every day, and
every morning she had 10 put MP their dinners.
My goodness, what picnic My wife has to
fix up the basket for two and makes as much
fuss over it as if she was going off on an ex-
cursion. Sue is SO afraid that it won't be good
enough what there is OF il, or enough of il such
rs il is. The next day got down to Camilla
and sojoumed withmy friend Underwood
reverend editor Of sthe Clarion, and he intro
duced me to thirteen and looked out of the
door for more, but l reckon that was all.
never visited happier household. His home
is called Evergreen and the name suits the
place and the family, but the mystery still re-
mains how man who had nothing when lie
went into the war and less when he canlS ont
and married poor girl and settled down in
the piney woods and run q ono horse paper and
preached Just for the love Of God could ever
raise such family and own such beautiful
home. Verify, there is no excuse for drum
mcr or any other musician. Camilla would be
q good town even IL nobody lived there, but
Mr. Underwood and his family.
most always visit the schools when | go to
a new place / don't like these
long waded examinations, but | do like
70 catch up the pupils all Of n sudden and pc
ruse their hopeful faces. There is healthy
emulation among the schools and every town
thinks L has the best in the world. The school
~ Lumpkm is a very prosperous one and has
the support OF The whole community. Then
there is the school al Blakely where there is a
blackboard all roond the large room and the
class are al chalbiEg away on the same sum at
the same time and they work so fast Il makes
your head swim. They don't care what Kind
OF a sum and got me an tangled up in irving
TO follow them. Mr. Fitzpatrick asked me TO
give them SUN not IN the book and | said "a
ttiiEh anu "A NH l-il4 OF my age 0uueu TO a
sixth and q half sixth Of it and that sum in
creased by Two and q half VIII give a sum the
square root OF which multiplied by my age
viii be "A
They fox -cfted through that in a hurry,
and black-eyed girl, who got the answer first,
looked at me and said Il dident think you
were that old SIR. Arp"
Then told them that one time there was a
man who lad diamond necklace that the
king wanted, and he sold il to the king for
corn ON condition that the king would take a
chess board that has sixty-four squares upon it
and give him n grain OF corn for the first
square and two grains for the second, and dou-
BILE 1t every time until all the squares were ia
Ken up Now, counting thousand grains to
( an ear OF corn and hundred ears to the bushel
/ and thousand bushels to a crib full and a
| thousand cribs 10 a barn fall, and thousand
barns TO granary, how many granaries would
1t take TO pay the debt?
WE'LL they would have done that
but the blackboard give ont and figures got
scarce and SO we Rll quit for dinner,
l put ON the airs of very smart man when
so to these schools but the children of this
generation are smarter than we are. IL is a
lightning age and they keep up with il and
always makes us feel helpless and nsignit-
cant. The truth is our time is most ont and
We don't know IT, I want TO retire on pen
Sion just want credit for the little good l
have done rs pioneer--as one who helped to
blaze the way aud open the road and dig up